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Brilliant Labs

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Brilliant Labs is a Singapore-based technology company that produces open source eyewear featuring artificial intelligence (AI).

Brilliant Labs was founded in 2019 in Hong Kong by Bobak Tavangar, a former Apple program lead.[1] Tavangar said he saw the potential for integrating the capabilities of artificial intelligence into glasses to give consumers "visual superpowers." The goal was to use an open source platform for development that would allow creators to access the company's code and create new apps for devices.[2]

In January 2024, the company introduced Frame,[3] which were glasses that looked similar to those worn by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. They were designed to be indistinguishable from regular eyeglasses and would be worn by those who wore prescription lenses. The glasses were enabled for audio with a voice assistant called Noa and featured an AI search engine called Perplexity.[4] They came at a time when other companies introduced similar products, like AI Pin from Humane, R1 from Rabbit, or Vision Pro from Apple, and came after other products, like Google Glass or HoloLens from Microsoft did not gain traction. Prior to this, the company offered the Monocle, an augmented reality (AR) lens that attached to traditional glasses, and which also used open source software.[5][6]

In 2025, the company revealed their second-generation smart-glasses, Halo.[7] These glasses include a camera, microphone, and bone-conduction speakers in a compact wayfarer-style form factor, and incorporate an on-device neural processing unit for AI inference.[8][9]

References

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  1. ↑ Coldewey, Devin (2023-06-27). "Brilliant Labs puts AI in front of your eye with its tiny open source AR lens". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  2. ↑ Lee, Zinnia. "Meet The Tiny Startup Aiming To Take On Apple And Meta With AI-Powered Smart Glasses". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. ↑ Sin, Ben. "Frame Is The Most 'Normal' Looking AI Glasses I've Worn Yet". Forbes. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  4. ↑ "Brilliant Labs unveils Frame AR smart glasses with multimodal AI for real-time visual search and translation". NotebookCheck.
  5. ↑ Allan, Alasdair. "Brilliant Labs' Monocle Is an Open Source Augmented Reality Wearable for the "Imaginative Hacker"". Hackster.io. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  6. ↑ Ina, Fried. "Ex-Apple exec launches AI-powered specs". Axios. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  7. ↑ "Brilliant Labs launches its second-generation smart glasses". Engadget. 2025-07-31. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  8. ↑ "Brilliant Labs Unveils All-day Smart Glasses with Color Display, Pre-orders Launch at $300". Road to VR. 2025-07-31. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
  9. ↑ "Brilliant Labs Unveils the Halo Smart Glasses, with Narrative AI and "Vibe Mode"". Hackster.io. Retrieved 2026-05-27.
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